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Ned here again. Let’s talk about auditing your domain for changes made to Password and Account Lockout policies. Frankly, it’s a real pain in the neck to figure out Password and Account Lockout auditing and there are legacy architectural decisions behind
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Mike here again. Many Group Policy features rely on a well connected network for their success. However, not every connection is perfect or ideal; some connections are slow. The Group Policy infrastructure has always provided functionality to detect slow
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Hello all, Jason here again. With this blog post, I just wanted to bring an ADMT issue to the masses’ attention, as I’ve experienced it multiple times within just the last couple of months. There’s an issue when attempting to migrate computer account
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Hello All, There’s a known issue with installing Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.1 onto a Windows Server 2008 R2 computers that I want to bring to everyone’s attention. At this time it has been acknowledged that version 3.1 (which does require
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Ned here. A few big pieces of news, in case you've been having a busy week: Netmon 3.3 has been released . You can download from here . Read more about the new features (such as autoscroll, frame commenting, experts, WWAN support, and more) right here
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Ned here again. There comes a day in nearly every administrator’s life where they will need to boot a domain controller into DS Restore Mode. Whether it’s to perform an authoritative restore or fix database issues , you will need the local administrator
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Ned here again. We're all snowed in down in Charlotte today, but that doesn't stop the blogging. We've published a new TechNet guide to many of the changes between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2; it's definitely worth a look and has good
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Craig here. We’ve had some nasty cases related to this bug, so it seemed prudent to do our best to increase the awareness of this issue. In a nutshell, the DNS Server service in Windows Server 2008 has a bug that can result in a large number of DNS records
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Hi All Rob here again. I thought I would take the time today and expand upon the Kerberos Delegation website blog to show how you can use the web site on IIS 7. Actually, Ned beat me up pretty badly for not showing how to set the site up on IIS 7 [ I
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Hi, Ned here again. Today I'm going to go through some well-hidden information on DFSR SYSVOL migration; hopefully this sticks in your brain and someday allows you to enjoy your weekend rather than spending it fighting issues. As you already know, Windows
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Ned here again. I recently spent a week with Microsoft Support Engineers from all over the world, and bumped into a colleague that works in MS Spain, out of Madrid. She mentioned that they had a Spanish-language blog focused on Directory Services, networking,
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Ned here again. Today's post is short and sweet, but when you need this one you will need it fast and we don't have this publically documented anywhere on TechNet (yet - it's coming). Since Windows 2000 SP4, it has been possible to forcibly demote Domain
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Ned here again. In the course of using Windows, it is occasionally useful to be someone besides… you. Maybe you need to be an Administrator temporarily in order to fix a problem. Or maybe you need to be a different user as only they seem to have a problem.
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Hi, Ned here again. Today I’m going to talk about handling compressed files in Windows Server 2008 running as a Core server. You know, that thing with no pretty graphical interface and just a big command prompt that stares at you, daring you to
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This is Paul Fragale, coming to you from my little corner of the world. With the launch of Windows Server 2008, there have been several cases around Terminal Server and Terminal Server License Server. I would like to take a moment to review with you some
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